Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within

Johnston, Adrian

doi:10.1080/09697250802156026

Angelaki

2008

DOI: 10.1080/09697250802156026

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Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within

Adrian Johnston

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The Death and the Resurrection of (Psy)critique: The Case of Neuroeducation

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2014

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A rapidly emerging hegemonic neuro-culture and a booming neural subjectivity signal the entry point for an inquiry into the status of the signifier neuro as a universal passe-partout. The wager of this paper is that the various (mis)appropriations of the neurosciences in the media and in academia itself point to something essential, if not structural, in connection with both the discipline of the neurosciences and the current socio-cultural and ideological climate. Starting from the case of neuroeducation (the application of neuroscience within education), the genealogy of the neurological turn is linked to the history of psychology and its inextricable bond with processes of psychologisation. If the neurological turn risks not merely neglecting the dimension of critique, but also obviating its possibility, then revivifying a psy-critique (understanding the academified modern subject as grounded in the scientific point of view from nowhere) might be necessary in order to understand today's neural subjectivity and its place within current biopolitics.

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The Death and the Resurrection of (Psy)critique: The Case of Neuroeducation

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Phantom of consistency: Alain Badiou and Kantian transcendental idealism

Johnston

2008

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The misfeeling of what happens: Slavoj Žižek, Antonio Damasio and a materialist account of affects

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In The Parallax View, Slavoj Žižek outlines a Lacanian critique of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio's theories of affectively shaped mental life. Damasio is faulted for failing to account for the existence of the Cogito-like subject-as-$, an existence claimed to be emotionally significant in ways directly relevant to the Damasian project. Žižek's criticisms stage a confrontation pitting psychoanalytic anti-naturalism against neuroscientific naturalism. This article involves laying out a partial defense of Damasio's proposals. In so doing, it seeks, specifically with regard to the matters at stake in Žižek's engagement with the sciences of the brain, to delineate a position based on the rejection of what is alleged to be a false dichotomy between naturalism and anti-naturalism. The forms of subjectivity posited by what would be a Freudian-Lacanian neuro-psychoanalysis are torn apart in various directions, split along fault lines of tension between what are imprecisely designated as 'natural' and 'non-natural' dimensions.

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Alain badiou, the hebb-event, and materialism split from within

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

The Death and the Resurrection of (Psy)critique: The Case of Neuroeducation

The Death and the Resurrection of (Psy)critique: The Case of Neuroeducation

Phantom of consistency: Alain Badiou and Kantian transcendental idealism

The misfeeling of what happens: Slavoj Žižek, Antonio Damasio and a materialist account of affects

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